| Abstract: | Gives a citation to Herbert Alexander Simon, "For his leadership in the development of new theories of thinking and of its relation to perception, attention, memory, and language. By viewing man's rational and social efforts to adapt to his environment in terms of information-processing systems, he and his colleagues have been able to apply computer science and optimization theory fruitfully to a wide range of important and difficult problems of cognition, with results that have revitalized this ancient and central topic in the science of psychology." The citation is followed by a biography and a list of Simon's scientific publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
